Joseph Smith wrote: > Hello, > For the Paraflasher project I would like to setup a function to > automatically detect the presence of the PC's parallel ports and their base > addresses. This way it doesn't need to be hard-coded into the program. I > was thinking of using /proc/ioports to do this but I am not really sure how > to do this in C. Here is what I am thinking: > > 1. First use grep -c paraport /proc/ioports to check if we have multiple > parallel ports and maybe setup loop for it. > 2. Then grep paraport /proc/ioports again to get the base address of each > parallel port detected. This is where I am stuck. I just need to turn the > first 4 characters (base address) into a variable. Can anyone help??? >
Check out http://people.redhat.com/twaugh/parport/html/parportguide.html It has some information on how to use /dev/partportX for your purposes. Stefan -- coresystems GmbH • Brahmsstr. 16 • D-79104 Freiburg i. Br. Tel.: +49 761 7668825 • Fax: +49 761 7664613 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] • http://www.coresystems.de/ Registergericht: Amtsgericht Freiburg • HRB 7656 Geschäftsführer: Stefan Reinauer • Ust-IdNr.: DE245674866 -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
